facility:toilet challenge

Gates Foundation backs toilet pioneers | Nature
►http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/08/gates-foundation-backs-toilet-pioneers.html

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced the winners of this year’s Reinvent the Toilet Challenge, handing over a US$100,000 first prize to the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, for work on a solar-powered toilet (right) that recycles water and generates hydrogen and electricity

The Reinvent the Toilet Fair brought together participants from 29 countries, including researchers, designers, investors and representatives of the communities who will ultimately use the new inventions. At the event, Loughborough University, UK, was awarded the $60,000 second-place prize for a toilet that produces biological charcoal, minerals, and clean water, while the University of Toronto in Canada won the third place prize of $40,000 for a toilet that sanitizes faeces and urine, while transforming waste products into resources and clean water.

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Wasting Away: Can a Gates Foundation-Funded Toilet-Design Initiative End a Foul Practice in the Developing World?: Scientific American
►http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=gates-toilet-tech-challenge

Advocates for universal access to and use of basic personal sanitation hope their efforts will get a big boost in August, when the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation present several hygienic innovations developed through its Reinventing the Toilet Challenge.

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“Of the Millennium Goals, sanitation is the one that’s most off track,” according to Rose George, author of The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters, (Metropolitan Books, 2008) which makes the case for universal toilets.

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